HomeLandLab Podcast

Episode 31: Cassie Hoeprich, Lena Miller and Suzanne Nienaber

In exploring the intersection of homelessness and public space, I have sometimes heard comments like, “Why should we build more parks, if they’re just going to be overrun

Episode 30: Barron Peper and Jescelle Major

Designers who have watched the homelessness crisis expand during their educational careers seem to have a heightened sense of the design community’s opportunity to creati

Episode 29: Paul Simmons and Sylvana Niehuser

On today’s episode I wanted to move the conversation away from the big cities and talk about how homelessness impacts some of the smaller communities that may fly under t

Episode 28: Jonathan Martin and Scott Greenstone of Project Homeless

On this episode of the HomeLandLab podcast, I’m very pleased to have Jonathan Martin, Editor of Project Homeless for The Seattle Times and Scott Greenstone, reporter, pro

Episode 27: Marla Torrado

About a year ago, I happened to be in Washington, DC visiting the National Building Museum, one of my all time favorites. There, in an exhibition on, the changing idea of

Episode 26: Natasha Ponczek Shoemake

While I was visiting Austin, recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Natasha Ponczek Shoemake. Natasha works for Austin Public Health, where she helps oversee th

Episode 25: Alan Graham

A couple of weeks ago, my family and I had the opportunity to travel to Austin. Among visits to too many taco and barbeque joints, I also had to go visit Alan Graham and

Episode 24: Corina Luckenbach and Melanie Granger

Close your eyes for a moment and think of the face of homelessness. What is the face that you see? Is that person male or female, white or black, young or old. Or maybe t

Episode 23: Mike McGinn

“I actually think emergency isn’t quite the right framing now. I think the right framing is that we have a refugee crisis, except [people experiencing homelessness] are n

Episode 22: Tim Harris

Tim Harris is the Executive Director of the street newspaper, Real Change and currently serves as the North American representative to the International Network of Street

Episode 21: Sloan Dawson and Sara Zewde

Designers Sara Zewde and Sloan Dawson were startled by the differences in how homelessness was manifest in West Coast cities, including their new home in Seattle, compare

Episode 20: John Malpede

John Malpede, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, has been working with the housed and unhoused community members of Skid Row since the mid 1980

Episode 19: John Wilson

Episode 19: John Wilson HomelandLab/Brice Maryman Download When I began this project, I wanted to speak with as many people as possible

Episode 18: Tamika Butler

Episode 18: Tamika Butler Brice Maryman Download I first met Tamika Butler when she was the director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle C

Episode 17: Rachel Allen and Allen Compton

Episode 17: Rachel Allen and Allen Compton Brice Maryman On today’s podcast I interview Allen Compton, Principal and Founder of SALT Landsc

Episode 16: Mike O'Brien

One of the ways that housing insecurity is arriving in cities is through the growth of people who are turning to vehicular living as an affordable housing arrangement in

Episode 15: Mark Vallianatos

Sometimes an interview comes together through serendipity. While in Los Angeles for a concert, a friend shared an in-depth article about the history of LA’s housing stock

Episode 14: Breanne Schuster

There is a level of opacity surrounding so much related to homelessness, and perhaps no area is more shrouded and misunderstood than the laws that guide where and when un

Episode 13: Richard Rothstein

One of the most insightful and eye-opening books I’ve read this year has been Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated A

Episode 12: Scott Gilmore

In every community, one of the city agencies most impacted by homelessness are parks departments. For people who don’t have anywhere else to go, parks become refuges of s